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Line 97: − + − McCarthy has been criticized for his aggressive use of legislative investigatory powers to probe the Communist sympathies of various government officials.{{fact}} McCarthy made charges of Communist infiltration several government agencies. Critics say McCarthy only uncovered a few Communists. McCarthy had a confrontation with Boston attorney Joseph Welch in televised hearings. Welch demanded that McCarthy name someone who had belonged to a [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|Communist front]] organization, and then complained that it was cruel, reckless, and indecent to do so. McCarthy named Welch's associate Fred Fisher as a member of the [[National Lawyers Guild]], who Welch himself had previously outed to the NY Times six weeks earlier.[http://www.aim.org/aim_report/A4297_0_4_0_C/]+ − − A teacher named Julius Hlavaty testified at the VOA hearings, and refused to answer whether he had been a Communist or had tried to recruit students to the Communist Party.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,806622,00.html</ref> He lost his job as a distinguished public school teacher and had to take a job at Columbia University. Critics say that McCarthy should have ignored Communists making broadcasts on VOA because exposing them might have personally embarrassed them. − − McCarthy questioned the security clearance for a Communist named [[Annie Lee Moss]] who worked in the US Army Signal Corps. Critics say although a CPUSA member she was just a low-level clerk. − − McCarthy never had access to secret Venona evidence about Communist spying, and did not successfully expose the extent of Communist influence in the US government.
→Criticism of McCarthy's methods: Welch was dishonest
The Korean War disrupted the postwar economic boom with military service, shortages, restrictions and cost-of-living inflation which could not help but breed discontent. And through it all the press kept up a constant barrage of "Communists in Washington," "twenty years of treason." <ref>''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'', Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 986. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref>
The Korean War disrupted the postwar economic boom with military service, shortages, restrictions and cost-of-living inflation which could not help but breed discontent. And through it all the press kept up a constant barrage of "Communists in Washington," "twenty years of treason." <ref>''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'', Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 986. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref>
==Criticism of McCarthy's methods==
==Hypocrisy regarding McCarthy's ==
McCarthy had a confrontation with Boston attorney Joseph Welch in televised hearings. Welch demanded that McCarthy name someone who had belonged to a [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|Communist front]] organization, and then complained that it was cruel, reckless, and indecent to do so. McCarthy named Welch's associate Fred Fisher as a member of the [[National Lawyers Guild]], who Welch himself had previously outed to the NY Times six weeks earlier.[http://www.aim.org/aim_report/A4297_0_4_0_C/]
Welch dishonestly pretended to be shocked, and famously said, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
Welch dishonestly pretended to be shocked, and famously said, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"
==See also==
==See also==